Life from death
If you want evidence that our climate is indeed changing, for one reason or the other, then one only needs to visit the German Harz mountains. Several years of harsh summers with little rain, followed by snowless winters have decimated the once dense Spruce forests. The high temperatures also was a boon to the bark beetles who quickly killed off the surviving trees. Vast swaths of the mountas are now bare of trees, in other places the ghostly dead Spruce forest still stand, atleast until the next big windstorm. This has however opened up many new locations on the HSB, though in the traditional winter season the dead landscape is harldly photogenic. As another Spring arrives, the dead landscape comes to life as the undergrowth reclaims the old forest. Here an uphill train makes its way through the wide open landscape between Steinere Renne and Drei Annen Hohne.
Life from death
If you want evidence that our climate is indeed changing, for one reason or the other, then one only needs to visit the German Harz mountains. Several years of harsh summers with little rain, followed by snowless winters have decimated the once dense Spruce forests. The high temperatures also was a boon to the bark beetles who quickly killed off the surviving trees. Vast swaths of the mountas are now bare of trees, in other places the ghostly dead Spruce forest still stand, atleast until the next big windstorm. This has however opened up many new locations on the HSB, though in the traditional winter season the dead landscape is harldly photogenic. As another Spring arrives, the dead landscape comes to life as the undergrowth reclaims the old forest. Here an uphill train makes its way through the wide open landscape between Steinere Renne and Drei Annen Hohne.